Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her recent publications include the edited volumes: Transnationalism and Migration in Modern Korea (2023), Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia (2021), East Asian-German Cinema (2021), and Sino-German Encounters (2021).Eric Kurlander is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Stetson University. His books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017), Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (2009), and The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity and the Decline of German Liberalism (2006).Doug McGetchin is Professor of World History at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar whose books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2016), Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Indology, Indomania, Orientalism (2009), and Sanskrit and “Orientalism” (2004).

• 1. IntroductionJoanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Doug McGetchin Part I. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in China2. Strange Havens? Shanghai, Yunnan, and Manchuria as East Asian “Solutions” to the “Jewish Question,” 1933 – 1941Eric Kurlander3. Shanghai Refuge: Chinese and Japanese Responses to Jewish Exiles, 1933-1945Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun4. The German-Jewish Refugee Experience in Wartime Shanghai and Contemporary Spaces of MemoryThomas Pekar5. Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Upon the Sea” from 1938 to 1949Hao Huang6. American Dreams: Jewish Refugees, American Servicemen, and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai Kimberly ChengPart II. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Japan 7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in JapanRicky Law8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from EuropeChristian W. Spang9. Wiltrud Preibisch’s Japanese Diaries: A “quarter Jew” in Japan, 1937-1944 Kerstin PotterPart III. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Southeast Asia10. “Twice crushed within one decade”: Tracking Trajectories of Central European Jewish refugees and Relief Provision in the Philippines, 1938-1948Simone Gigliotti11. “Only Halting to Replenish Their Supplies of Fuel?” The German European Jewish Refugee Experience in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1945Lisbeth Rosen JacobsonPart IV. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia12. The Holocaust Correspondences of Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Maurice Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics of Indian ArtTirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay13. An Aesthetic Hybridity: Walter Kaufmann’s Refuge in India during the Nazi PeriodShalva Weil14. Affiliations, Entanglements and “Otherness”: The Experiences of German-speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938–1948Joseph Cronin15. Jewish Migration from Germany to British Ceylon in the Context of the Second World War: Orientalism and the Place of Ideas in the Migration RegimeSebastian Musch

Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her recent publications include the edited volumes: Transnationalism and Migration in Modern Korea (2023), Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia (2021), East Asian-German Cinema (2021), and Sino-German Encounters (2021).Eric Kurlander is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Stetson University. His books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017), Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (2009), and The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity and the Decline of German Liberalism (2006).Doug McGetchin is Professor of World History at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar whose books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2016), Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Indology, Indomania, Orientalism (2009), and Sanskrit and “Orientalism” (2004).

• 1. IntroductionJoanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Doug McGetchin Part I. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in China2. Strange Havens? Shanghai, Yunnan, and Manchuria as East Asian “Solutions” to the “Jewish Question,” 1933 – 1941Eric Kurlander3. Shanghai Refuge: Chinese and Japanese Responses to Jewish Exiles, 1933-1945Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun4. The German-Jewish Refugee Experience in Wartime Shanghai and Contemporary Spaces of MemoryThomas Pekar5. Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Upon the Sea” from 1938 to 1949Hao Huang6. American Dreams: Jewish Refugees, American Servicemen, and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai Kimberly ChengPart II. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Japan 7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in JapanRicky Law8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from EuropeChristian W. Spang9. Wiltrud Preibisch’s Japanese Diaries: A “quarter Jew” in Japan, 1937-1944 Kerstin PotterPart III. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Southeast Asia10. “Twice crushed within one decade”: Tracking Trajectories of Central European Jewish refugees and Relief Provision in the Philippines, 1938-1948Simone Gigliotti11. “Only Halting to Replenish Their Supplies of Fuel?” The German European Jewish Refugee Experience in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1945Lisbeth Rosen JacobsonPart IV. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia12. The Holocaust Correspondences of Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Maurice Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics of Indian ArtTirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay13. An Aesthetic Hybridity: Walter Kaufmann’s Refuge in India during the Nazi PeriodShalva Weil14. Affiliations, Entanglements and “Otherness”: The Experiences of German-speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938–1948Joseph Cronin15. Jewish Migration from Germany to British Ceylon in the Context of the Second World War: Orientalism and the Place of Ideas in the Migration RegimeSebastian Musch

Joanne Miyang Cho is Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her recent publications include the edited volumes: Transnationalism and Migration in Modern Korea (2023), Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia (2021), East Asian-German Cinema (2021), and Sino-German Encounters (2021).Eric Kurlander is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Director of Jewish Studies at Stetson University. His books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (2017), Living with Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich (2009), and The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity and the Decline of German Liberalism (2006).Doug McGetchin is Professor of World History at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar whose books include Modern Germany: A Global History (2023), Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia (2016), Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India (2014), Indology, Indomania, Orientalism (2009), and Sanskrit and “Orientalism” (2004).

• 1. IntroductionJoanne Miyang Cho, Eric Kurlander, and Doug McGetchin Part I. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in China2. Strange Havens? Shanghai, Yunnan, and Manchuria as East Asian “Solutions” to the “Jewish Question,” 1933 – 1941Eric Kurlander3. Shanghai Refuge: Chinese and Japanese Responses to Jewish Exiles, 1933-1945Wendy (Xiaoxue) Sun4. The German-Jewish Refugee Experience in Wartime Shanghai and Contemporary Spaces of MemoryThomas Pekar5. Shanghai Sounds: Austro-German Jewish Refugee Musicians in the City “Upon the Sea” from 1938 to 1949Hao Huang6. American Dreams: Jewish Refugees, American Servicemen, and Chinese Locals in Post-World War II Shanghai Kimberly ChengPart II. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Japan 7. Transcending the Holocaust: Japanese Appreciation for Jewish German Cultural Intermediaries and Their Survival in JapanRicky Law8. The German-Jewish Business Community in Tokyo-Yokohama and the Relief Efforts for Refugees from EuropeChristian W. Spang9. Wiltrud Preibisch’s Japanese Diaries: A “quarter Jew” in Japan, 1937-1944 Kerstin PotterPart III. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in Southeast Asia10. “Twice crushed within one decade”: Tracking Trajectories of Central European Jewish refugees and Relief Provision in the Philippines, 1938-1948Simone Gigliotti11. “Only Halting to Replenish Their Supplies of Fuel?” The German European Jewish Refugee Experience in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1945Lisbeth Rosen JacobsonPart IV. German-speaking Jewish Refugee Experience in South Asia12. The Holocaust Correspondences of Ernst Cohn-Wiener and Maurice Laserson: Testimony to the Birth of a Jewish Aesthetics of Indian ArtTirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay13. An Aesthetic Hybridity: Walter Kaufmann’s Refuge in India during the Nazi PeriodShalva Weil14. Affiliations, Entanglements and “Otherness”: The Experiences of German-speaking Jewish Refugees in India, 1938–1948Joseph Cronin15. Jewish Migration from Germany to British Ceylon in the Context of the Second World War: Orientalism and the Place of Ideas in the Migration RegimeSebastian Musch